Radical 16 or radical table (几部), meaning small table, is one of 23 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 2

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. is an associated indexing component affiliated to the principal component . In addition, the identical character used in Simplified Chinese for ''jǐ'' used to ask "how many" for small amounts or to mean "a few, some, almost, nearly" does not have any historical connection to the "table" character.

Evolution

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'' seal script character File:几-bigseal.svg, ''Liushutong'' character

Derived characters

Literature

* *Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, * KangXi:
page 133
character 16

External links

Unihan Database - U+51E0
{{Simplified Chinese radicals

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